By Gloria Dickie In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears ...

Blowing-up birds are bewildering a Bay Area ‘burb. Dozens of birds have met their sudden and violent demise in a California neighborhood in recent months, dropping out of the sky mid-flight and ...

Richmond, a small port city in California’s Bay Area, is currently at the center of a bizarre phenomenon that’s baffling both residents and officials alike: an unexplained spate of exploding birds.

"It was just horrifying," resident Sharon Anderson said. A disturbing avian mystery is unfolding in a Northern California town where residents have reported birds "exploding." Residents of a ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen near feeders in California using data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch. Birds are ranked by the percent of sites visited ...